Archive for the 'COINTELPRO' Category
Kenya: NIS Knew an Attack Would Happen
September 27th, 2013Via: Independent: Kenya’s National Intelligence Agency (NIS), widely accused by politicians of failing to pick up chatter about the attack, has insisted it did warn the police and officials inside the President’s office before the Westgate siege, but its warnings went unheeded, The Star reported. According to the same report, a pregnant policewoman avoided Westgate […]
FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack
September 14th, 2013Via: Wired: It wasn’t ever seriously in doubt, but the FBI yesterday acknowledged that it secretly took control of Freedom Hosting last July, days before the servers of the largest provider of ultra-anonymous hosting were found to be serving custom malware designed to identify visitors. Freedom Hosting’s operator, Eric Eoin Marques, had rented the servers […]
U.S. COMMUNICATIONS INTELLIGENCE SECRETLY SHARED WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR USE AGAINST AMERICANS IN CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS
August 5th, 2013“It is the height of naivete to think that once collected this information won’t be used.” —Former Stasi Lieutenant Colonel On NSA’s Mass Surveillance The United States is using the most awesome and terrifying surveillance infrastructure ever created to target its own citizens for criminal investigations. Intuitively obvious in activist circles for several decades —> […]
FBI Agents Gave Informants Permission to Break the Law Thousands of Times in 2011
August 4th, 2013Via: USA Today: The FBI gave its informants permission to break the law at least 5,658 times in a single year, according to newly disclosed documents that show just how often the nation’s top law enforcement agency enlists criminals to help it battle crime. The U.S. Justice Department ordered the FBI to begin tracking crimes […]
Insider Threat Program: Federal Workers Directed to Spy on Each Other
July 10th, 2013It doesn’t matter that the crackpot techniques don’t work. The regime knows that they don’t work. The point is to punish people at random for no reason other than for the spectacles to serve as reminders of what happens to disloyal servants of the regime. Via: McClatchy: In an initiative aimed at rooting out future […]
Washington Post Brushes a Few More Prism Crumbs Onto the Floor
June 30th, 2013Thank you, Master, thank you. My now familiar and broken-record-response to this thing is to go back to Room 641A last decade if you want a real thrill. They have beam splitters installed at the peering points. NSA is getting everything. The end. The media’s repeated ramblings/mantras about the FISA court and protections for Americans […]
U.S. Surveillance Best Suited for Gathering Information on Law-Abiding Citizens
June 24th, 2013Via: Bloomberg: The debate over the U.S. government’s monitoring of digital communications suggests that Americans are willing to allow it as long as it is genuinely targeted at terrorists. What they fail to realize is that the surveillance systems are best suited for gathering information on law-abiding citizens. People concerned with online privacy tend to […]
‘KKK Member, Accomplice Created Lethal X-ray System, FBI Says’
June 20th, 2013Via: CNN: Two New York state men have been charged in a bizarre plan to develop a mobile X-ray system that would be used from afar to silently kill people that they deemed “undesirable,” federal officials said. Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, and Eric J. Feight, 54, were arrested Tuesday after an undercover operation by the […]
Russian Official: FBI Missed Boston Warning
June 4th, 2013Via: AP: A senior Russian official said Tuesday that the Boston Marathon bombings could have been prevented if American officials had followed through with Russian intelligence. Officials previously hewed to President Vladimir Putin’s statement that Russia had no information that could have prevented the attacks. “The Russian side warned the American side about the Tsarnaev […]
Chinese Hackers Who Breached Google Gained Access to Data on U.S. Surveillance Targets
May 21st, 2013Via: Washington Post: Chinese hackers who breached Google’s servers several years ago gained access to a sensitive database with years’ worth of information about U.S. surveillance targets, according to current and former government officials. The breach appears to have been aimed at unearthing the identities of Chinese intelligence operatives in the United States who may […]
